Just a quick progress report, The system admin have scheduled the order from the backup tapes. As it's a fairy complex process it is hard to give an accurate eta but I would expect it to be done by this afternoon at the latest.

I didn't get another email after that so it'll probably be tomorrow. Hopefully they manage to get all the stuff back!

I'm really sorry but I have now been informed that the earliest data available is from 13 Dec which I guess would be pointless to retrieve. I don't know what they have been playing at and why I was told earlier backups could be retrieved but it now seems it is not possible.

The board got hacked on Dec 9 so backups from Dec 13 would be kinda pointless

I'll try reintegrating my own backuped messages up to March 2004, which should be quite possible. But everything from April 2004 to December 2004 is pretty much lost forever

Anyone who has donated will get an email soon about it being refunded etc.

Thanks again for all your help, it's a damn shame we couldn't get all the messages back with it

Thanks for that Prof. I guess I'll give people the option when I send around the email later..

I was getting kinda optimistic about being able to get a backup until recently, but c'est la vie I guess. I'll start trying to restore the March backup that I do have during today. Better that, than nothing.

When I rebuilt the (empty) forums after the hack, they had different item numbers than the originally forums. What this means is:

If you search for a message from Dec 9th 2004 to 3 January 2005 (either directly or through a persons previous posts) you'll be redirected to the incorrect forum.

I don't really see this as a problem so I'm not going through the database to mannually fix it. Any old or new messages outside of this month will be in their correct spot and can be searched correctly.

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